Tuesday, March 3, 2015

A pause on denier watching - till they crawl out of the gutter

There's been almost nothing worth writing about from deniersville the last few days. The deniers at WUWT are busy wallowing in the gutter. I've already written about some of it here and here and here, but enough is enough.

While WUWT are deciding whether to emulate James Delingpole. smutty gossip rags or paranoid conspiracy theory websites, I'll not be writing much about them. No decent person would be able to stomach most of the WUWT articles of the past few days, including me. (Roy Spencer's blog has gone in a similar direction.)

Maybe that's the intention. To rid WUWT of any readers with a sense of decency.

10 comments:

It's a tough job but I sure thank you for doing it. I don't think I could stand spending much time at WTFUWW, not to mention the time you put in parsing it for us. I'm a laymen who has put in lots of hours at climate blogs over the past 6 years, and I use what I've learned to refute skeptic claims at mainstream media and FaceBook articles in the comments. What you report on from WUWT appears in these other media a little later. So I to go there pre-armed so to speak.

That statement by Willie Soon is so slimy and despicable. He has broken the rules but everyone else is radical and evil for saying so ... why do conservatives lack any sense of personal responsibility?

"I similarly regret the terrible message this pillorying sends young researchers about the costs of questioning widely accepted “truths.”"

Maybe he'll have a word with his sponsors about the terrible message the pillorying of climate scientists sends young researchers about the costs of going into research on climate of any sort.

Such bald-faced hypocrisy. Don't any of his supporters say, "Wait a minute....didn't we just pillory Mann, Hansen, Santer, Jones, and numerous others. For years. With ads and billboards. On major national networks. And told our congresscritters to launch investigations. And had their names, contact info, and addresses broadcast far and wide and tell people to contact them to let them know what they think of them? Oh boy, we are such hypocrites."?

I'm beginning to think the lack of self-awareness in Dunning-Kruger people goes well beyond the knowledge arena, and into the areas that deals with insight into oneself.

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WUWT insider Willis Eschenbach tells you all you need to know about Anthony Watts and his blog, WattsUpWithThat (WUWT). As part of his scathing commentary, Wondering Willis accuses Anthony Watts of being clueless about the blog articles he posts. To paraphrase:

Even if Anthony had a year to analyze and dissect each piece...(he couldn't tell if it would)... stand the harsh light of public exposure.

Definition of Denier (Oxford): A person who denies something, especially someone who refuses to admit the truth of a concept or proposition that is supported by the majority of scientific or historical evidence.
‘a prominent denier of global warming’
‘a climate change denier’

Alternative definition: A former French coin, equal to one twelfth of a Sou, which was withdrawn in the 19th century. Oxford. (The denier has since resurfaced with reduced value.)